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The most vital thing you can do right now is spread this message offline to normies. There is no "unrest", there's a protest. It has 400 people. LA does worse when the Lakers come in 3rd in a season.

Looking for a @wgawest.bsky.social email in solidarity. We gonna mobilize labor?

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...

California representatives did a check in where migrants were being detained. They found no beds, no food and no water. Children were among the detained.

Update: the mayor put out those statements yesterday afternoon, signed the budget late last night — and this is the statement she put out this morning

stephen miller is a monster but you can express that without being antisemitic

Abolish ICE. Protect immigrants. Stand up for trans people. "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Matthew 25:40

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

Absolutely wild that LA has deployed LAPD, DHS has deployed both ICE and CBP, now the white house is calling in the national guard. You'd think the wildest riot in history was going down in LA right now, but it's actually just a bunch of protestors mostly just standing around holding signs.

FOX calling Homeland Security ”the bad guys” on their livestream of deportation riots in LA June 7 2025.

I really regret never having the opportunity to be mean to Stephen Miller in high school.

If you want to show solidarity with Los Angeles, the best thing to do is organize protests against ICE tonight/tomorrow in your own cities. Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.

Paramount, CA is putting out a call for environmental engineers to collect and preserve air, soil, and water samples from the tear-gassed areas for examination and documentation.

I’m stoned and playing guitar so I might have misheard but I think the abc7 anchor just questioned how ICE is making us safer

this is why we call them nazis. they're not cartoon villains, they are people who do this. then they go home and sleep fine and come back to work do they can do it to another family

hold on that’s a movie I’d watch

This is the only meme you need.

Please PLEASE don't try to figure out who the skateboard kid is PLEASE if you're gonna make them a meme please leave the actualperson the fuck alone cops murdered visible protestors from Ferguson and 'fun' internet sleuthing is policing

“Defund the police” is also a climate justice issue because LAPD helicopters alone burn 761,000 gallons of jet fuel in a year per a jalopnik article from 2023. www.jalopnik.com/lapd-spends-...

Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

Hey, there’s stuff to do! Events update for the week of June 6-12

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

“Zero room for error” well LA is in a deficit because of LAPD lawsuit payouts so I think the room for error is like half a billion dollars. Also I’m no expert but I do not think this is how you recruit Good Apples.

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

People trying to protect their neighbors are not the problem. The fact that some of you are thinking that way reflects a level of psychological capture & submission to fascism that you should interrogate. If they want an "excuse" to do something, they'll create one. The good guys aren't the problem.

it sounds like some people are saying you shouldn’t protest because it plays into Trump’s hand and I’m not really sure what they think sitting at home is doing

what should be particularly scary about this is that assault on an officer is an exceptionally abused charge. it’s tacked on to nonviolent offenses constantly and used to harass people who’ve committed no offense at all.

One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.

We’re now seeing paramilitary ICE raids in LA — with full on military garb, military tanks, flash bang grenades & the arrest of a major labor leader. This is a core manifestation of fascism — using federal forces to put down dissent. If we don’t stop this now, this is the future everywhere.

Imagine a British accent on NPR saying “On Friday, regime security forces fired riot suppression ordinance at nonviolent demonstrators protesting the detention of a prominent labor leader in a populous western region.”

LA friends! Celebrate reproductive rights on 6/22 with a screening of the Lonestar Three, a documentary about the three women who built an abortion network and whose lawsuit became Roe v Wade. Tickets $25 here: weblink.donorperfect.com/Dobbs25LoneS...

Yesterday, #SB630 and #AB1138 passed. This is great news for this legislation to expand tax credits for film & TV in California, but we aren't done yet! Take two minutes to submit a letter to key elected officials. Details & letter form here: bit.ly/KCR_ReelJobsNeedRealAction #KeepCaliforniaRolling

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018)

Fellow Californians, here's who to call after today's ICE raids in LA: 1. Call your MOC: (202) 224-3121 (switchboard) 2. Call your STATE assemblymembers/senators: findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov 3. And call/email Newsom: www.gov.ca.gov/contact/